mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they disinvented cheques because copier is a thing and well... even in the 70s us it was quite iffy.
mircea_popescu: so there's this "have specialist counter-provider". most electronics stores in orclands will let you pay your utility bills etc.
asciilifeform: and they aint invented cheques yet ?
asciilifeform: why not carry it on the tram, lol
asciilifeform: i dun get it at all, BingoBoingo . they pay $ to send 'across town' ?!
mircea_popescu: every day we discuss imperial "money" and its working is another day nothing makes any fucking sense at all.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: lol , send to where ? across the street ?!
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: wtf would be the point of a wu spampal that only worx ~in~ 1 place
BingoBoingo: I dun know if any of them talk outside uruguay
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: There's a couple local in uruguay services, will look into it
asciilifeform: dollars to doughnuts there's a clone that lives in cr and uy ( and not usa )
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it meanwhile dawned on me. why the fuck would wu even be part of this conversation.
mircea_popescu: ie, cut the usgtards out of loop entirely ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo do you have some local remitter in that neck of the woods ?
mircea_popescu: but i mean... you understand how little sense this makes, neither of this has anything to do... oh, cuz wu is a us thing.
mircea_popescu: which is the dhs ? human services ?
asciilifeform: hanbot: mysteriously, 100% of my wu worked (1st one barfed 1ce, rinsed and repeated, then ok for 6mo )
mircea_popescu: hanbot it's not entirely clear, is the idea that you're the terrorist ? or that he is the terrorist ?
mircea_popescu: if this ends up settled by the mailing of a large quantity of alfajores... keks
mircea_popescu: if only they still had paypal.
hanbot: mircea_popescu i'm not even sure, their banhammer is like a pile of weird noodles.
BingoBoingo: hanbot: Thank you for the update
hanbot: Anyway, I'm going to get it settled tomorrow. Sorry for the delay.
hanbot: I don't think I'ma bother to debug their nonsense, as far as I'm concerned Western Union was never even marginally useful for any purpose I can think of. But obviously they did carefully write down all the details before not doing any work, so I dunno...advanced warning I guess? Not sure how much the shitpile can be relied on.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-24 13:28 mircea_popescu: in the end, administrative overhead (finding localbitcoinists, talking to them, talking to western union, updating the site objects according to reality in the field etcetera) comes around 2 hours / successful payment.
hanbot: BingoBoingo: I went to send your WU, but either someone I traded with back in the days of http://btcbase.org/log/2018-05-24#1817953 that is based in Peru did Something Bad(tm), or else I dunno, your gf? In any case they're doing this entire song & dance about how "there's an alert" and "i gotta talk to a lawyer to justify...it's not clear what or why or to whom", entirely contentless fluff.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Latest update from Venezuala is that none of the 4 cars in the garage work, but the motocicleta does.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-12#1861392 << if mircea_popescu or anybody else recalls the thread, plox to link
mircea_popescu: "couldnt you just use the other prisoners then ?!" "eh, what's the subversive fun in that."
mircea_popescu: come to think of it, i suppose this would be the pinnacle of perversity : to get titfixed women smuggled into prison for your amusement, but only ever fuck them in the ass.
asciilifeform: meanwhile in upstack lulz: asciilifeform discovered that a good % of prb returns NOTHING to getaddr command. how the fuck do these people connect to peers ? ( i'ma guess some gavintronic-over-https curated nonsense )
mircea_popescu: i meant the logbridge
a111: Logged on 2018-10-12 19:27 BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> no moar cows in uruguay ? << AH, apparently selling all the cows to china for a while was a problem but they are catching up with the fucking.
nicoleci: asciilifeform, jesus - bad time to voice myself. maybe the raccoon saw those fetlife pictures.. mp was saying he needs more gross shit on his blog
mircea_popescu: apparently it has the capacity to whoosh BOTH WAYS over your ehad!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lolwho, the subj ?!
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> no moar cows in uruguay ? << AH, apparently selling all the cows to china for a while was a problem but they are catching up with the fucking.
asciilifeform: there was a 'hamplanet' thing
BingoBoingo: The socialism has run to the point things are breaking, and... Bahamas doesn't do, Trump does
mircea_popescu: or let me guess, they all went to college, cutting up paper now.
BingoBoingo: But the short of it is he has one of the several firms contracted for filling government dope baggies with product for pharmacy distribution. Manages to actually accomplish that task.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: By doing his damnest to do the industrial garden thing
BingoBoingo: The nugget there is Mr. MUGA is the fellow keeping Uruguay's legal cannabis market from collapsing
nicoleci: mod6, thanks, you too! lol you definitely surprised me, i thought i was dreaming of the channel for a second
BingoBoingo: In further profiles of the MUGA guy https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/quien-es-el-millonario-que-quiere-ser-candidato-blanco-y-debe-millones-al-brou-20181012151830
mod6: <+asciilifeform> mod6 what do you think << yeah! Sounds good. I put together a thing, lemme dig it out...
mircea_popescu: because totally, if ro anontard is poor then everyone and everything he might see or hear is equally poor anontard.
mircea_popescu recalls in the early 2010s in romania, varios 0 value local niggers (who thought themselves important, much like the above mentioned Abdala Nobodyonastick) kept calling my secretary and having various brainstop moments on the phone.
nicoleci: ok ill use the standardized greeting and potentially take notes.. and contact info if possible
mircea_popescu: anyway, the idea is mostly to permit "journa" tards get a documentation point for their shitty markov chain processes of wordsalading ; and i suppose for the internet cucks to wank at.
nicoleci: ok cool. has anyone been able to ask questions before or is the ability to openly ask questions all new?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform was there a fixed greeting ? "Hello you have reached The Bitcoin Foundation, how may I help you ?"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: prolly will go smoother if she has some of it in l1 cache, imho
mircea_popescu: nicoleci notrly, if anyone calls asking for infos relay the q's here. other than that...
nicoleci: ill check out the link too
nicoleci: asciilifeform, haha thanks. feel free to call me anytime and yell about the logs summaries
asciilifeform: nicoleci: http://thebitcoin.foundation/index.html see under 'call'
nicoleci: asciilifeform, no worries! i think their was a connection issue because i could barely understand you but mod6 was clear
asciilifeform: nicoleci: it was me ringing yer phone, btw, sorry'bout the short convo, had to switch terminals
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: In the interim her, mother, and small zoo of dogs and cats are in very un-Uruguayo home with six car garage
mircea_popescu: the obvious and necessary (though unfortunate -- but fuck them for not speaking up at the right time) result of #metoo is daily beatings and gang rape for all campus and highschool dwellers. rotherham / durban style
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: She's still trying to unwind father's estate and extract mother from caracas
mircea_popescu: let them fucking starve, and lick each other's bungholes in lieu of crocheting their own toilet paper, im 100% for it.
asciilifeform: ( anyway if anybody turns up the thread, plox to link, i'm coming up empty )
mircea_popescu: lotta this "i've been sitting here doing nothing for a long time, therefore i matter" nation of africa bs.
BingoBoingo: But yes, lots of butthurt about what the fellow in question was doing making money and yet... He's their best chance to avoid a coup
asciilifeform: pretty sure there was thread, even
a111: Logged on 2018-10-12 15:35 BingoBoingo: On the other hand Frente Amplio is trying to pass Tranny Reparations while paying for it out of military pensions.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-12#1860880 << bwahaha. amplio what, amplio culo << Amplio is the Italian "Samba, sí" party
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform are you maybe confusing ben_vulpes and mthreat ? who did actually live there yes, but ended up importing gf, jet etc. mostly used local infrastructure for cheap pilot lessons.
asciilifeform: at any rate i dun doubt that the item wouldv'e broken spectacularly if mircea_popescu had torture-tested it
asciilifeform: i havent been there since, no
asciilifeform: i bet he does, d00d hung around for months there iirc
mircea_popescu: yoiu know ? bar-disco-club the size of your bathroom. "wtf is wrong with you ?!" "we've been serving customers since 1972!" "yeah well when you finally add up the slices to one whole served customer let me know"
mircea_popescu: all the shitty shops in argentina were doing the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3KBuQHHKx0 bullshit, "we've been here for 5690845 years." "yes, but you suck" "that is less important"
asciilifeform: lol i suppose nao i gotta actually read what they were sayin'..
mircea_popescu: what they're saying is, "just because he's rich doesn't mean we're dirt". which -- it does mean, yes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is notably not what they're saying.
mircea_popescu: THERE IS NOTHING EQUALLY IMPORTANT.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i dun even know that the traditional orc intuition of 'rich ~= receives payola from miami' is such terrible heuristic
mircea_popescu: what, because while he was getting rich and htey weren't "they were doing something equallty important" ? like what, let me guess, http://trilema.com/the-goodbye-girl "redecorating" the apartment ?
mircea_popescu: "Molesto, Abdala sostuvo que prefiere que no se presente. No puede caer un millonario en paracaídas a decir que va a ser precandidato, dijo. " <<< ahjahaha AND WHY THE FUCK NOT ?
a111: Logged on 2018-10-12 15:35 BingoBoingo: On the other hand Frente Amplio is trying to pass Tranny Reparations while paying for it out of military pensions.
asciilifeform: in-block tx, that is, rather than mempool
asciilifeform: i strongly suspect that a very large % of the current set of 'nodes' won't pass.
asciilifeform: the 1 'litmus test' i was able to think of , is the 'i pick a block hash and you gimme the block in <1s' algo.
asciilifeform: ( granted such a survey won't distinguish 'pseudos' or outright shams, the only item that can do it is an actual noad )
trinque: just didn't need preventing, as the bad form is screamingly apparent
diana_coman: well yes, I can't quite see the point of blanking the manifest without regenesis since that's basically what it means
mircea_popescu: sorta how physics perfectly permits the destruction of statues, even though people tend to not indulge.
mircea_popescu: note that it's not even illegal to blank the manifest or w/e. impolite, yes, but the spec allows.
diana_coman: and it fits perfectly the original idea of alternative, proper
mircea_popescu: diana_coman a single line ~in the press~. but a tree ~in existence~.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-12 16:32 mircea_popescu: ave1 you can literally make it alternate patch to the table crc32, so one can press either, according to need/want.
diana_coman: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-12#1860960 -> hm, doesn't the manifest impose a single line rather than a tree?
mircea_popescu: this then would allow one to maintain presence without ever connecting to the internet.
mircea_popescu: (one perfectly legitimate way to build-towards-gossipd is to make the following item standard : every bot, upon receiving some registration order from anyone in owner's wot, will then respond to "any messages for me ?" with a "since yo ulast asked, here's all the loglines i have seen which highlighted your name".
asciilifeform: further in pipeline, will be a thing that actually asks'em for a randomly-picked block, and sees if it keccaks to what i've got.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: btw i think you'll like this, by default thing does opposite of the heathen one, doesn't display prb nodes individually, but simply as a collective 'sad people' stat # .
mircea_popescu: which is exactly what they are.
asciilifeform: ah yes i'ma use same skeleton for the nodes thing
asciilifeform: idea being a republican (and non-idiotic) replacement for the https://bitnodes.earn.com/nodes/?q=/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/ item
asciilifeform: speaking of trb, i dusted off an old conveyor item, phuctor-like www proggy that maps out noadez ( you give it ips, and it connects to'em, then issues 'version' and 'getaddr', and builds a graph )
mircea_popescu: (correspondingly -- alf's boat design will come with the necessary body of water.)
asciilifeform: i'd rather have addressable sram , and explicit movement to/from a slower/cheaper brick
asciilifeform: personally i fucking hate branch prediction and other hacks around the slow main memory that for some reason there's no buyable alternative to ( cray is dead )
mircea_popescu: kinda how the whole thing even came to my attention. "really ?"
mircea_popescu: trying to figure out the future misses of the obvious by the branch predictor is the best way to drive intelligent people insane i know of.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-12 13:52 asciilifeform: ( bonus is that the closed form is not only constant time, but substantially faster on pc, nomoar branch prediction misses )
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-12#1860843 << o yeah, that's so evident from the extant record, too...
asciilifeform: btw ave1 , if you're gonna keep the 'minimum 4 bytes of input', it oughta be a precondition to the func.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile visiting duckling got into my shoes, is individually gumming each of however many dozens laces, then forgetting its count and starting over.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: was done ( twice ! ) , lol, see further downthread.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-12 12:49 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-12#1860789 << imho a ~constant time~ crc32 would be useful, and can be made from ave1's with very small effort, but i'ma leave it as exercise for him ( simply dispose of the if's )
mircea_popescu: the only problem, to my eye, is that good abstraction is being hijacked by the female minded to implement bad abstraction, ie, instead of an insulation from detail abstraction becomes an insulation from responsibility.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it behaves moar like a (very slowly moving) tape, tho, rather than memory
mircea_popescu: if you want to keep slaves -- then YOU administer the keeping of the slaves. you don't ask sheriff of wherver county to implement the fugitive slave act. and so on. who wants prng makes prng, does not get to pretend "oh, kernel has this knob for me, '''im not entirely sure what it does lol'''" tongue in cheek bs, '''i just dress like this, it doesn't mean anyhthing''' etc.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-12 12:41 asciilifeform: but yes if you're picking the next piece to fall in 'tetris', just use own prng
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-12#1860806 << "own prng" stance also correctly implements specificity-of-diddling republican doctrine, and more importantly one not really so formally expressed before -- that responsibility must sit with they responsible.
asciilifeform: notmuch. 'they have ears, but do not hear'(tm)
mircea_popescu: every time xantipa interrupted her illustious husband with some nonsense or other, rite.
asciilifeform: this pre-dates most of the current acute nonsense, even
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i find myself wondering how many physics folx sit and bite their lips, 'monte carlo dun work so good...', cuz they bought $50k swiss 'quantum rng' that whitens with sha.
mircea_popescu: honestly, just buy 2mn dice, put them all in a large bag hoisted to a pole and let it drop.
asciilifeform: allegedly they actually had meat army throwing dice.
mircea_popescu: (re above -- THEY ended up baking. i had nfi.)
mircea_popescu: science spoken in english is very sad these days.
mircea_popescu: "what do you have there ? cats ?" "inter alia..."
asciilifeform: ( they also make a few high-end DACs, etc., but this prolly would not keep'em alive by itself )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: phunphakt : the only reason, afaik, why ti still not bankrupt , is that they somehow managed to get their bottom line calcs to be ~mandated~ in schools in ~whole usa
a111: Logged on 2016-11-30 23:04 asciilifeform: 'As more people with less commitment to quality and much less attention to detail got involved in writing it, its educational value diminished, too. It is like going to a library full of books that took 50 man-years to produce each, inventing a way to cut down the costs to a few man-months per book by copying and randomly improving on other books, and then wondering why nobody thinks your library full of these cheaper books is an in
a111: Logged on 2017-04-09 22:51 mircea_popescu: anyway, in the above retelling, the 4->5 transition is the coup the grace. they couldn't "follow" each other ~because~, in this view, they were bereft of sufficient bandwith to in any sense communicate. so they couldn't, like, end up with all the same one substitute cuntcap.
mircea_popescu: gave it ALL away on inept management. and not even the "fucktarded engineer manalones" http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-09#1641130 stuff.
asciilifeform: was imho the king of '90s pocketcalcism
a111: Logged on 2018-01-03 17:37 ben_vulpes: so i dug this ti-89 platinum out of my closet last night to have something tactile to do arithmetic on and holy shit i'd completely forgotten about the input lag
mircea_popescu: it's not so much "ti could have been the intel-microsoft/apple", but rather... it was. fucking was.
asciilifeform: they had a line of pocket calculators, this was ( and as i understand, remains ) their flagship product. but! they somehow managed to lose their upstream ic vendors (they dun make much with own hands any moar) and nao reduced to selling same calc with ~ipnoje+emulator internals, and multi-second boot(yes) times
mircea_popescu: pity nobody bothers to write the story of their spectacular implosion. it'd make ye olde http://trilema.com/2014/fred-quimby-and-ancient-evils/ story look quite tame.
mircea_popescu: kinda why i even took up the logline. it might be the worst #blackchickscode #womenarepeopletoo #slavesrightsnao #lxsdumbxs etc etc failure in history.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ti is epic example of sad -- at one time 1 of the largest semiconductor houses in usa, and built not only a lispm ( flopped ) but fairly beefy 80s micro ( ti-99/4 , also flopped )
mircea_popescu: other than this, computing was pretty much 100% radar signal processing at the time.
mircea_popescu: "Texas Instruments delivers the first Advanced Scientific Computer (also called Advanced Seismic Computer), containing 4 pipelines with an 80 ns clock time. Vector instructions were memory-to-memory. Seven of these machines are later built, and an aggressive automatic vectorizing FORTRAN compiler is developed for them. It is the first machine to contain SECDED (Single Error Correction, Double Error Detection) memory. " << als
asciilifeform: right nao they cost maybe 100bux ea. to break.
asciilifeform: btw there's a megatonne of 512b rsa keys in my db
mircea_popescu: right. otherwise it becomes this arbitrary-point anachronism in the vein of "grandmother should have fucked better sailors on the basis of how retarded granson is, and i can prove this by showing grandson was alive at an arbitrary point in time grandmother hadn't died yet."
asciilifeform: ( entertainingly analogous, imho, to their current-day 'proprietary blockchains(tm)' liquishit )
mircea_popescu: in either case, rsa after.
mircea_popescu: either you go "early", in which case 1971 is before 1977 ; or else you go "mass adoption", in which case killer micro is 1990s, but rsa is EXACTLY gribble-assbot schism, cca 2013.
asciilifeform: orig. msdos 'pgp' was , what, '92 ? and the mit-istic bastardizations, shortly after
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: most of the subj (e.g. barrett's algo) is late-80s
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform rsa first published 1977 ; Intel produces the world's first single-chip CPU, the 4004 microprocessor. in 1971.
asciilifeform: rsa very much existed in '80s, good % of the classic papers re real-life algos for it are from exactly then
mircea_popescu: but yes, access to entropy is by now the one underpinning of being a citizen.
mircea_popescu: in the 1980s engineers / cstronicists' defense, it was not yet understood how important entropy is to individuality and human existence.
mircea_popescu: i am by now thoroughly allergic to this "downstream wants something upstream doesn't provide, so it's neither time to bring out the whips and chains upon the downstream nor to throw out the upstream and bake a new one, but instead let's hotwire the microwave ballast to the toaster."
a111: Logged on 2016-08-18 22:32 asciilifeform: 'The situation is somewhat akin to a retarded girlfriend trying to flood your apartment, that not only opens all the faucets and stops all the drains, but also takes the "extremely clever" measure of puncturing the water pipes, so she can then preciously inform you that "turning off the faucets won't help" and you must work with her to somehow create a raft out of your widescreen TV so as to navigate the marshy terrain that used to b
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: recall also how the thing came to be ( was idjit hack, around the fact that 'sshd wants entropy at boot time, before rng init' or somesuch )
mircea_popescu: fucktarded zeks that eat the usg cheese THEREFORE CAN NOT nor should eat my cheese. and we're back to http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-12#1860889
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the reason i even called it ideological patch is because the pretense that shitropy-eaters have anyhthing to do with entropy, or us, must be shot in the head.
mircea_popescu: ie, if the most shitropy you ever want in one gulp is x, make manager thread create that chunk in contiguous memory and keep it full.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i sat down & tried to think of a legit use for urandom, only came up with what's in the linked thread
a111: Logged on 2018-10-12 12:39 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-12#1860778 << there are not so many legitimate uses for /dev/urandom. however the idea that it can be fully reproduced in userland without kernel knob is afaik a mistake -- the thing gives you real entropy if available, and elsewise prngolade; importantly, as a ~nonblocking~ operation. idea is that it ~always~ returns in constant time.
asciilifeform: the maker of the thing folded coupla yrs ago, they had 2 major buyers, the 'olpc' idjicy (dead) and usg (made clone, as i understand) and so starved.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i kinda like playing heroes2 on lappies, >50% of their utility, whip it out while camping or w/e. but...
asciilifeform: i have nfi if item is of interest to anyone other than asciilifeform , aside from possibly phf
asciilifeform: there's 6 or so known lappies where thing fits natively, with 0 construction work, i have one due to show up next wk, will post photo if worx.
mircea_popescu: imo this half-problem was born for being trampled ignominously, but then again that's just me.
asciilifeform: if yer willing to carry suitcase, may as well get the chinese hdmi/vga boardlet and use with rk.
asciilifeform: ( cable , can be adaptered, in theory, but frame is what it is )
asciilifeform: it's a physical part, gotta fit in the frame
mircea_popescu: all. because, whether they expect 16:9 or 4:3 or 19:6 or anything else, you can... margin it!
asciilifeform: can also nix the space b/w tmsr and btc
mod6: Alright, check it out: http://thebitcoin.foundation
asciilifeform: btw there's another pheature, also apparently 0cost, that lets you make calls ~from~ it
mod6: i expected the "1" to work, however, maybe it's just a "smrt phone" thing
mircea_popescu: what the fuck is wrong with that country.
asciilifeform: i dun pnoje much these days, nfi
mircea_popescu: so wait, wait. these idiots managed to create dialing ambiguity ?!
mod6: btw... jurov and I are working on relocating the bitcoin.foundation website to the foundation's server in Pizarro. We're gonna get it set up, and test before we announce a cut-over date. Smooth transition, ftw.
mod6: I can do that -- the "1" in front didn't work for me tho!
asciilifeform: mod6: i recommend to put the #, "1-833-TMSRBTC" , on tbf www
mircea_popescu: in a word, ave1 : don't be shy. there's a time to be shy, but when they bring out the playdo's not that time. shove it up shirts, see what happens.
asciilifeform: ^ The Right Thing imho
mircea_popescu: ave1 you can literally make it alternate patch to the table crc32, so one can press either, according to need/want.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-12 09:40 ave1: well mostly because I see this more as reference code (this is how it can be done with division) and less so as production code (the table driven works very well for that)
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-12#1860782 << good to have both ends, for reason alf pointed out (embedded systems might not afford the kbs)
mod6: I agree, let's just visit this when we have the problem.
mircea_popescu: though, logically, if we care enough about permanence rather than existence, more logical to also make euro free number, and add euro located respondent, and then criss-cross these on 2nd pass.
asciilifeform: mod6: indeed there is
mod6: Is there a feature where it'll ring to person 1, and if person 1 does not answer, it'll roll to a different number?
asciilifeform: btw theres a (apparently phree) feature where it can go to diff receivers at different times of day
mircea_popescu: the conversations rich people have...
asciilifeform: i'ma invoice mod6 then as soon as it actually costs sumthing nontrivial, or erry 6mo, whichever comes 1st
mircea_popescu: aite. i was gonna pay myself, but see no problem with tbf picking it up either. all yours.
mod6: I think it's fine that the Foundation pays for it's toll-free number, Sure. Objections?
mod6: Nice, when you run out, just invoice the Foundation via jurov plz.
asciilifeform: it's an aol-style 'cheap but then let'em add the bells & whistles and then they'll pay' sorta thing.
mircea_popescu: if the pricepoint's any indication... and the pricepoint always is the first and foremost indication.
asciilifeform: subj is far from my daily doings so i have presently nfi just where they get'em
asciilifeform: possibly not quite this sad, but there apparently was d00ds filling out spreadshits by hand
mircea_popescu: we're putting it in the tmsr music video.
mircea_popescu: motherfucker get pics, you have any idea how oldschool cool this is getting to be ?
mircea_popescu: wait, wait. there's a chick with ye olde metal probes making contacts on the board ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: cuz promised 'next day' and turned out ~week, and place runs on meat/monkeys rather than (as implied) comp
mircea_popescu: why the fuck ?!
mod6: yeah, that's fine. and the call quality was good -- totally clear.
mod6: Ok cool, it works. I think my problem is that i dialed a "1" in front of the entire number.
mircea_popescu: in other MCGA, yest spent lunch at table with three girls, at upscale italian place where there were three girls total. on the left, tableful of dudes. on the right, tableful of dudes. nobody said as much as zip, though i was openly playing with tits over cacciucco.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo lulz potential in either case!
a111: Logged on 2018-10-12 15:01 ave1: btw, turns out I was wrong on; http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-12#1860768. I can run the entropy source tests in parallel without problem (jyst takes n times longer, so scales as expected)
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-12#1860876 << how do you know you aint feeding overlapping rngola to the parallel processes ?
BingoBoingo: On the other hand Frente Amplio is trying to pass Tranny Reparations while paying for it out of military pensions.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: This would be my first if it happens. My read is there's still time for National Party to get their shit together for the impending election. They have a celebrity MUGA candidate officially announcing in a few weeks.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-12 08:37 ave1: the wrappers read directly from the tty and work one processor at the time.
ave1: btw, turns out I was wrong on; http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-12#1860768. I can run the entropy source tests in parallel without problem (jyst takes n times longer, so scales as expected)
mod6: Aight, "The customer you have dialed is not avaliable at this time. Good-bye."
asciilifeform: btw mod6 , i haven't tested the pnoje thing yet, why dontcha try it while i go to tea
mod6: Ok, that's fine. Let's see what kinda calls we get in those two months. And then we'll go from there. $7 isn't too bad at all, anyway.
mod6: asciilifeform: it was $7/mo extra for the call recording?
ave1: the painfull part was at the start when I did not know that crc used a reversed bit order and did not understand that the initial register has to be xored with the message (and not used as a kind of prepend)
asciilifeform: ( possibly the algebra can be shortened tho )
asciilifeform: anyway i suspect it makes sense to ave1 , he came up with the correct answ